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The government accidentally paid 32 federal employees from the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and Interior Department during the shutdown, The Washington Post reported.
The Interior Department, whose employee made the error, immediately tried to claw back the funds.
The employees' bosses also told the workers not to access the funds as the government tried to take back the payments.
Some 800,000 federal employees are living without pay because of the shutdown.
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